I hate wires. I am impatiently waiting for wireless power, and in the meantime see it as my personal mission to eliminate as many cables as possible from my home.

Of course, being a gadget addict can make this rather difficult - but happily the solution is often to buy an additional gadget.

With a wireless router and a laptop, you can of course have net access from anywhere in or around your home without resorting to anything as gauche as a cable.

But until recently, you still had to go and plug into your printer whenever you wanted to print anything. Aside from being unacceptably 20th Century, this necessitated putting the printer somewhere visible - and printers are generally pretty ugly things (though watch out for news on that).

Happily, this state of affairs has now been corrected with wireless print servers.

A wireless print server is a box that plugs into your printer and establishes a wifi connection to your router. Install a driver on your laptop, and it tells the laptop to route print jobs via wifi to the router, which passes them on to the print-server, which passes them on to the printer.

The net result is that you can tuck your printer away wherever you like (all it needs is two power sockets, one each for the printer and print-server) and print wirelessly simply by selecting Print in the usual way, exactly as if you had a wired connection.